Syndicated Blog Posts by Annie Truslow

Summary Hi, everyone. My name is Annie Belle, and I recently graduated from the University of Mary Washington Summa Cum Laude, with honors in sociology, and in the top 1% of my class. I have spent the past four years working extremely hard to achieve academic excellence, and while I …

Summary Hi, everyone. My name is Annie Belle, and I recently graduated from the University of Mary Washington Summa Cum Laude, with honors in sociology, and in the top 1% of my class. I have spent the past four years working extremely hard to achieve academic excellence, and while I …

I am putting this video here for right now, because I just spent 10 minutes talking to my computer, only to find out that PhotoBooth had only recorded 7 seconds of my video, and I don’t have the time or patience to fix it right now. Here is a preview, …

I am putting this video here for right now, because I just spent 10 minutes talking to my computer, only to find out that PhotoBooth had only recorded 7 seconds of my video, and I don’t have the time or patience to fix it right now. Here is a preview, …

For my final project, I created something called The Overheard Project. It has been an absolute joy to work on this project, and I am so excited to continue working on it. I decided that I would start recording things that I overheard throughout the day that struck me as …

For my final project, I created something called The Overheard Project. It has been an absolute joy to work on this project, and I am so excited to continue working on it. I decided that I would start recording things that I overheard throughout the day that struck me as …

DS106 is coming to a close, and yet I hardly think it will ever be over. I love this class and this community, and one of the most exciting things about #ds106 is that I will be able to participate even when I am no longer a student here. The …

DS106 is coming to a close, and yet I hardly think it will ever be over. I love this class and this community, and one of the most exciting things about #ds106 is that I will be able to participate even when I am no longer a student here. The …

Here is a video tutorial I made (per Feng‘s request) detailing how I make animated .gifs from videos using Photoshop CS4. I also make .gifs from still images, but that process is much more involved. Making .gifs is addictive, and the process is pretty simple. The hardest part is selecting …

Here is a video tutorial I made (per Feng‘s request) detailing how I make animated .gifs from videos using Photoshop CS4. I also make .gifs from still images, but that process is much more involved. Making .gifs is addictive, and the process is pretty simple. The hardest part is selecting …

TDC92 Assignment: Sketch something that shows perspective. Although the color gradient for this work is not accurate in terms of communicating perspective, I wanted to focus on the direction of the shapes going into the picture, while intentionally misrepresenting the color gradient. I think the fact that the color gradient …

TDC86 Assignment: Draw Love. TDC87 Assignment: Take a video of something you do not understand. TDC88 Assignment: Take a photo that includes repeating geometric shapes. This photo is a photo I captured looking up at the domed ceiling of Ball Hall at the University of Mary Washington. Obviously the natural …

I’m in a .gif making kind of mood. Here are two .gifs I just made. The first is from Matilda (the scene where Matilda’s father comes out with his new blonde hair and the mother tosses the cheerios everywhere), and the second is from The Holiday, when Amanda and Graham …

Overheard, Day 2: putting in and getting out. I created this simple design using Photoshop CS4. It is mean to represent that, much like a circle does not function as a prism in reflecting light, the statement, “what you put into it is what you get out of it” is …

TDC79 Assignment: Geology is everywhere, parks, building materials, etc. Photograph a local geological feature. The primary geological feature here is the beautiful Lake Anna. Photo from Instagram (anniebelle1) TDC81 Assignment: Sometimes perfection is the enemy. Take a photo that represents a beautiful mess. These two pieces hang on a door …